My wife and I will be traveling from Gunnison Colorado to Taos New Mexico later this month and I am looking at routes. For those of you that have traveled in that area, is it better to take Highway 50 east to Poncha Springs and then south on 285 toward Alamoso or take 114 to Saguache and then to Alamosa? Highway 50 seems like the logical way to go but you have to go over Monarch Pass. I've never been on 114 so I don't know what it is like. I am looking for suggestions.